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the world.
4 You are of God, little children, and have
overcome him. Because greater is he that is in
you, than he that is in the world.
5 They are of the world: therefore of the world
they speak, and the world heareth them.
6 We are of God. He that knoweth God,
heareth us. He that is not of God, heareth us
not. By this we know the spirit of truth, and
the spirit of error.
7 Dearly beloved, let us love one another, for
charity is of God. And every one that loveth, is
born of God, and knoweth God.
8 He that loveth not, knoweth not God: for
God is charity.
9 By this hath the charity of God appeared
towards us, because God hath sent his only be-
gotten Son into the world, that we may live by
him.
10 In this is charity: not as though we had
loved God, but because he hath first loved us,
and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our sins.
11 My dearest, if God hath so loved us; we
also ought to love one another.
12 No man hath seen God at any time. If
we love one another, God abideth in us, and his
charity is perfected in us.
13 In this we know that we abide in him, and
he in us: because he hath given us of his spirit.
14 And we have seen, and do testify, that the
Father hath sent his Son to be the Saviour of the
world.
15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the
Son of God, God abideth in him, and he in God.
16 And we have known, and have believed the
charity, which God hath to us. God is charity:
and he that abideth in charity, abideth in God,
and God in him.
17 In this is the charity of God perfected with
us, that we may have confidence in the day of
judgment: because as he is, we also are in this
world.
18 Fear is not in charity: but perfect charity
casteth out fear, because fear hath pain. And he
that feareth, is not perfected in charity.
19 Let us therefore love God, because God
first hath loved us.
20 If any man say, I love God, and hateth his
brother; he is a liar. For he that loveth not his
brother, whom he seeth, how can he love God,
whom he seeth not?
21 And this commandment we have from God,
that he, who loveth God, love also his brother.Chapter 5
Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is
born of God. And every one that loveth him who
begot, loveth him also who is born of him.
2 In this we know that we love the children
of God: when we love God, and keep his com-
mandments.
3 For this is the charity of God, that we keep
his commandments: and his commandments are
not heavy.
4 For whatsoever is born of God, overcometh
the world: and this is the victory which over-
cometh the world, our faith.
5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but
he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
6 This is he that came by water and blood,
Jesus Christ: not by water only, but by water
and blood. And it is the Spirit which testifieth,
that Christ is the truth.
7 And there are three who give testimony in
heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy
Ghost. And these three are one.
8 And there are three that give testimony on
earth: the spirit, and the water, and the blood: